Cara language

People	Facara [fàʧáɾà]
Language	Cara [ʧáɾà]

Cara
Cara
Teriya
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Plateau State
Ethnicity	6,000–7,500 Facara (2021)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Plateau Beromic Cara; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cfd
Glottolog	cara1270
ELP	Cara

Cara (Chara, Fachara), also called Teriya after the largest of the ten towns/villages it is spoken in, is a small Plateau language of central Nigeria, tentatively placed in the Beromic branch of that family.^[1] Cara is spoken by about 3,000 people in Teriya village of Bassa, Plateau State.^[2] Due to language shift, an unknown fraction of the ethnic population of an estimated 6,000 to 7,500 Facara speak the language.^[1]